Mystery Posing Fun
Some behind the scenes posing fun during a photo shoot with Kajira. She is truly a gorgeous and fun model!
Could He Have Imagined?
Sunday morning December 7, 1941 on an aircraft carrier in the Pacific Ocean. A Japanese pilot starts the engine of his VAL Dive Bomber. The destination is Pearl Harbor. The mission is to destroy the United States Naval Pacific Fleet at anchor. He hears and feels the drumming of that aircraft engine. Could he have possibly imagined the everlasting world changing events that he would release as he began his takeoff?
The Face Of The Attack
Sunday morning at 7:48 AM December 7, 1941 you look up, and so close, see the face of a pilot of a Japanese VAL Dive Bomber unleashing the attack on Pearl Harbor. Commemoration of that day at the Palm Springs Air Museum just yesterday.
Shoot Down At Pearl Harbor
The attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941 was done by two waves of aircraft. Two-thirds of the Japanese aircraft lost were during the second attack. American defenses would have been much more deadly during a third attack. This potential loss of more aircraft was one of the reasons Admiral Nagumo withdrew.
Clear Skies Pearl Harbor
In the clear skies over Palm Springs. Perhaps not unlike the view of the Japanese VAL Dive Bombers in the clear skies over Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941. Yesterday at the Palm Springs Air Museum. More photos and video to come today and the next few days. Thanks!
More Lighting And Leaping
More behind the scenes at the Broncolor lighting workshop at Edge Studios in Los Angeles on Friday.
Outdoors Leap Lighting
Outdoors behind the scenes at the Broncolor lighting workshop at Edge Studios in Los Angeles on Friday.
Fitness Spotlight
Do you see what I see? Has a Christmas ring to it doesn’t it? The spotlight on Joanna Johnson, personal fitness trainer, NPC Bikini competitor.
Take a look at her and what she has built!. Great abs, look at that mid section. Check out those biceps, wow! Then her shoulders, and look at that separation from the biceps, good work! Look in the mirror and see the detail in her back! You can visit with Joanna at World Gym in Palm Desert California where we did our photo shoot. Maybe she can have you do it right too!
Photo shoot notes… Makeup and Hair Styling by the talented and also physically impressive, Natalie Lyle. My choice is a Hasselblad digital camera system. Lighting by Broncolor with the Para 133 Reflector powered by the Move 1200L pack. Like I say, only the best! Thanks!
Coat Or No Coat?
My buddy, model and actress, Noel VanBrocklin just could not decide about putting on that coat. So we compromised.
Photo shoot notes… Makeup and Hair Styling by Estee Lauder’s extraordinary Blanche LeBeau. Hasselblad digital camera system. Lighting by Broncolor. Thanks!
No Matter How Old You Are!
Always so very fun no matter how old you are! The sound and the power of this vintage aircraft taking flight. Just this past Saturday at the Palm Springs Air Museum. A World War II Navy fighter, the Bearcat F8F-2, here flown by pilot Steve Barber.
Bearcat
A Grumman F8F-2 Bearcat Navy fighter plane on it’s way out for a flight demonstration at the Palm Springs Air Museum. Flown by Pilot Steve Barber. The Bearcat was a carrier based aircraft. It later still out performed many of the early jet fighter aircraft. Popular in air racing, they can exceed 500 mph and have held many world records.
Pretty Polly
Among my very favorite “Nose Art” at the Palm Springs Air Museum… “Pretty Polly”. This P-63 King Cobra from World War II is now a very rare aircraft and this one even more so because it is still flying.
I have been posting a lot of my aircraft photography over the last week and I have been asked by people when I was going to be posting more of my photography of beautiful women. “Pretty Polly” is my transition going into next week when I will show you more of those gorgeous women, and some guys too! So keep coming back! Thanks!
Canadian Invasion
It is actually very common to see military aircraft flying in and out of the Palm Springs Airport. So when everybody at the Palm Springs Air Museum saw a military cargo plane take off last Saturday, it was business as usual. I shot some photos and did not think about it again until now when I was going through all of them. And there it is, a Canadian Forces CC-130J Super Hercules transport. Well it is actually the “Palm Springs International Airport“.
Busy Day Flying
Last Saturday at the Palm Springs Air Museum. One of the Museum’s premier aircraft, piloted by the equally premier Tom Nightingale, headed out for takeoff. Waiting while the Stearman biplane comes back in to pick up another happy passenger.
“Bunny” is a P-51 Mustang restored and dedicated to the famed Tuskegee Airmen of World War II. And specifically to Lt. Col. Bob Friend. To this day you can find the Colonel often at the Air Museum and many times in the back seat of this very special aircraft.
First Class Seating
On this flight all seating is first class. And the passenger rides in front. You can too! How Fun! At the Palm Springs Air Museum just this past Saturday.
The Outside Elevator
There is an elevator inside the building at the Palm Springs Air Museum and then there are elevators outside the building. This is one of the outside elevators. I actually do not think she was waving to me when I shot this photo Saturday, but you can ride the elevator too. Check it out on the Museum website at http://palmspringsairmuseum.org
Flabob Express
Another view of the “Flabob Express” DC-3 that was flying over Palm Springs yesterday. Part of the “Props & Hops” craft beer festival at the Palm Springs Air Museum. And yes there was beer tasting going on while it was overhead. Not the pilots, I know for sure, I was on board for one of the flights.
Flying Craft Beer Tasting
The DC-3 “Flabob Express” rolling out to the runway from the Palm Springs Air Museum. You could have been onboard Saturday tasting craft beers during your flight around Palm Springs. How fun is that!
DC-3 Backseat Driver
Doing some backseat driving in a DC-3. The “Flabob Express” yesterday flying out of the Palm Springs Air Museum. Can you believe there was craft beer tasting going on behind me! Too fun!
I See…
Joanna Johnson in our photo shoot. When I see a fitness person, I see them differently than most people. One of the reasons that a photographer who does not know fitness and bodybuilding just will not get it.
I see that even thought she is not flexing Joanna has… firm and shapely quads in her upper legs, defined and muscled triceps, worked out shoulders with great definition and separation leading to full biceps, traps that have real muscle and giving her a taper and powerful look, solid and lean abs, a back with definition. And without question… well let’s just say, she looks really good in tight red shorts.
Photographed at World Gym, Palm Desert, California. That is where you will find Joanna as a personal fitness trainer. If you are looking to build your body and be a better you, Joanna might be the trainer for you. I have photographic proof of it right here!
Photo shoot notes… Wonderful Makeup and Hair Styling by Natalie Lyle. Photographed with a Hasselblad digital camera system. Lighting with a Broncolor Move 1200L pack and the Broncolor Para 133 reflector. The people and the gear, nothing but the best!
B-25 Mitchell Bomber
The B-25 “Mitchell” was the bomber flown off the aircraft carrier USS Hornet on April 18, 1942 for a bombing mission over Tokyo. It was intended to show that the USA could project power across the oceans and that Japan was vulnerable to an air attack. The mission was also retaliation for the December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor.
This is a B-25J version which entered service in early 1945. It was used as a crew trainer and transport. Interestingly it appears in the 1970 movie “Catch 22” as “Vestal Virgin”. Now here flying out of the Palm Springs Air Museum on it’s tour schedule. The sound of those engines starting up is worth the visit all by itself!
Bunny P-51
The World War II P-51 Mustang “Bunny” at the Palm Springs Air Museum. Restored to the configuration of the famed Tuskegee Airmen and dedicated to Lt. Col. Bob Friend. Piloted by Tom Nightingale.
Sometimes They Never Returned
Sometimes they never returned from their missions. This bronze 1940’s flight jacket at the Palm Springs Air Museum always reminds me of that.
Today is the day we remember and honor all Veterans. They are the men and women to whom the Nation and the World turns to for so very many reasons in war and peace.
Join me tonight and tomorrow for programs at the Palm Springs Air Museum. Moments of honor but also fun and excitement as planes from our history fly overhead. Thanks! Check it all out at http://palmspringsairmuseum.org
1940’s Bronze Leather Bomber Jacket by Scott Hanson.
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